Definition of secures Secures
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What does secures mean?
Part of speech
🔤- secures, verb, present, 3rd person singular of secure (infinitive).
WordNet
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| secure - assure payment of | ||
| guarantee, vouch give surety or assume responsibility; "I vouch for the quality of my products" | ||
| certify declare legally insane | ||
| secure - cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" | ||
| fasten, fix | ||
| unfasten become undone or untied; "The shoelaces unfastened" | ||
| attach be attached; be in contact with | ||
| strap secure (a sprained joint) with a strap | ||
| tie, bind form a knot or bow in; "tie a necktie" | ||
| rig equip with sails or masts; "rig a ship" | ||
| bitt secure with a bitt; "bitt the ship line" | ||
| latch fasten with a latch; "latch the door" | ||
| garter fasten with or as if with a garter | ||
| chain fasten or secure with chains; "Chain the chairs together" | ||
| cable send cables, wires, or telegrams | ||
| picket fasten with a picket; "picket the goat" | ||
| rope up attach to one another, for safety; "The mountaineers roped up when they started the final ascent" | ||
| girth, cinch get a grip on; get mastery of | ||
| bandage, bind dress by covering or binding; "The nurse bandaged a sprained ankle"; "bandage an incision" | ||
| cramp suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | ||
| cleat secure on a cleat; "cleat a line" | ||
| cast anchor, drop anchor, anchor secure a vessel with an anchor; "We anchored at Baltimore" | ||
| anchor, ground secure a vessel with an anchor; "We anchored at Baltimore" | ||
| moor secure with cables or ropes; "moor the boat" | ||
| berth, moor, tie up provide with a berth | ||
| spike manifest a sharp increase; "the voltage spiked" | ||
| sew together, stitch, sew, run up fasten by sewing; do needlework | ||
| crank bend into the shape of a crank | ||
| noose secure with a noose | ||
| chock support on chocks; "chock the boat" | ||
| brad fasten with brads | ||
| bight fasten with a bight | ||
| belay fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | ||
| belay fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | ||
| bar prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" | ||
| clamp impose or inflict forcefully; "The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital" | ||
| velcro fasten with Velcro; "velcro the belt" | ||
| stay stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" | ||
| clinch settle conclusively; "clinch a deal" | ||
| clinch settle conclusively; "clinch a deal" | ||
| lock become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" | ||
| lock up secure by locking; "lock up the house before you go on vacation" | ||
| hasp secure or lock with a hasp | ||
| zip up, zipper, zip close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold" | ||
| tack fasten with tacks; "tack the notice on the board" | ||
| string add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical" | ||
| hook approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" | ||
| belt fasten with a belt; "belt your trousers" | ||
| cement make fast as if with cement; "We cemented our friendship" | ||
| grout bind with grout; "grout the bathtub" | ||
| staple secure or fasten with a staple or staples; "staple the papers together" | ||
| rivet hold (someone's attention); "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists" | ||
| button fasten with buttons; "button the dress" | ||
| pin immobilize a piece | ||
| hang up, hang interrupt a telephone conversation | ||
| hang suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste; "hang the venison for a few days" | ||
| wedge, deposit, lodge, stick squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" | ||
| intrench, entrench fix firmly or securely | ||
| buckle, clasp fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" | ||
| brooch, clasp fasten with or as if with a brooch | ||
| stake mark with a stake; "stake out the path" | ||
| wire fasten with wire; "The columns were wired to the beams for support" | ||
| coapt fit tightly and fasten | ||
| joggle fasten or join with a joggle | ||
| joint separate (meat) at the joint | ||
| toggle release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane" | ||
| secure - get by special effort; "He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed" | ||
| procure | ||
| obtain come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" | ||
| suborn induce to commit perjury or give false testimony; "The President tried to suborn false witnesses" | ||
| copyright secure a copyright on a written work; "did you copyright your manuscript?" | ||
| patent make open to sight or notice; "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him" | ||
| enlist, engage join the military | ||
| secure - fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak" | ||
| plug, stop up | ||
| infix, insert, enter, introduce attach a morpheme into a stem word | ||
| fill up, close eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" | ||
| stopper, stopple close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers" | ||
| tampon plug with a tampon | ||
| chink fill the chinks of, as with caulking | ||
| cork up, cork stuff with cork; "The baseball player stuffed his bat with cork to make it lighter" | ||
| secure - make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!" | ||
| guarantee, ensure, insure, assure | ||
| guarantee, vouch give surety or assume responsibility; "I vouch for the quality of my products" | ||
| doom make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position" | ||
| make act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" | ||
| secure - furnish with battens; "batten ships" | ||
| batten, batten down | ||
| beef up, strengthen, fortify gain strength; "His body strengthened" | ||
Adjectivesecure, securer, securest |
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| secure - free from danger or risk; "secure from harm"; "his fortune was secure"; "made a secure place for himself in his field" | ||
| unsafe, insecure lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability" | ||
| invulnerable immune to attack; impregnable; "gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs" | ||
| protected guarded from injury or destruction | ||
| safe (of an undertaking) secure from risk | ||
| assured marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence; "she paints with an assured hand" | ||
| firm strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope" | ||
| fail-safe eliminating danger by compensating automatically for a failure or malfunction; "a fail-safe device in a nuclear weapon to deactivate it automatically in the event of accident" | ||
| secure - not likely to fail or give way; "the lock was secure"; "a secure foundation"; "a secure hold on her wrist" | ||
| insecure lacking self-confidence or assurance; "an insecure person lacking mental stability" | ||
| fixed incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes" | ||
| steady not easily excited or upset; "steady nerves" | ||
| secure - free from fear or doubt; easy in mind; "he was secure that nothing will be held against him" | ||
| unafraid, untroubled | ||
| secure - financially sound; "a good investment"; "a secure investment" | ||
| dependable, good, safe | ||
| sound thorough; "a sound thrashing" | ||
| secure - immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable"; "a secure telephone connection" | ||
| impregnable, inviolable, strong, unassailable, unattackable | ||
| invulnerable immune to attack; impregnable; "gunners raked the beach from invulnerable positions on the cliffs" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- secure (Verb)
To make secure in all the above senses. - secure (Adjective)
Free from attack or danger; protected. - secure (Adjective)
Free from the danger of theft; safe. - secure (Adjective)
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret. - secure (Adjective)
Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid. - secure (Adjective)
Firm and not likely to fail; stable. - secure (Adjective)
Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- secure (a.)
Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident. - secure (a.)
Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense. - secure (a.)
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome. - secure (a.)
Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from. - secure (v. t.)
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect. - secure (v. t.)
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage. - secure (v. t.)
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship. - secure (v. t.)
To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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Free from danger or risk. -
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To make something fixed or stable; to cause to be firmly attached. -
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To make certain of.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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sē-kūr′, adj. without care or anxiety, careless (B.): free from fear or danger: safe: confident: incautious: in safe keeping: of such strength as to ensure safety.—v.t. to make safe: to guard from danger: to seize and confine: to get hold of: to make one's self master of: (obs.) to plight or pledge: to render certain: to guarantee: to fasten.—adj. Secūr′able, that may be secured.—n. Secur′ance, assurance, confirmation.—adv. Secūre′ly.—ns. Secūre′ment; Secūre′ness; Secūr′er, one who, or that which, secures or protects; Secūr′itan, one who dwells in fancied security; Secūr′ity, state of being secure: freedom from fear: carelessness: protection: certainty: a pledge: (pl.) bonds or certificates in evidence of debt or property.—Secure arms, to guard the firearms from becoming wet. [L. securus—se- (for sine), without, cura, care.]
Part of speech
🔤- secure, verb, present, 1st person singular of secure (infinitive).
- secure, verb (infinitive).
- secure, adjective.
